A quiet street in a provincial town hides an ominous secret. For thirty years, inexplicable suicides of young men have been happening here, killing themselves in sophisticated, extremely cruel ways. When Mikhail, a former law student, gets into the hands of information that the terrible deaths are connected, he refuses to believe it, and even the version of that , that some otherworldly entity is taking away people’s lives seems absurd to him. However, Misha, against his will, finds himself drawn into a series of terrible events, and he will have to cast aside disbelief and show all his courage in order to survive himself and save his loved ones from death. The novel “The Knot of Death” "opens the cycle of mystical thrillers "Secrets of the County Town."